Yotam Polizer January 22, 2020 As migrants fleeing conflict arrive on the shore of Levos Island, Greece, IsraAID is there to meet them. They provide emergency medical assistance and psychological first aid for the thousands of people who have left their livelihoods behind and made a dangerous journey across the Mediterranean. IsraAID also works with…
Emily Castro | January 16, 2020 Data are crucial to informing how we design sustainable solutions for development. In order to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the 193 Member States of the United Nations, changemakers are turning to technology to help achieve better data collection. Whether they are implementing SMS text systems…
Damon Taylor | January 9, 2020 ¡Feliz año nuevo! I’m Damon Taylor, Senior Advisor to the Mexican grassroots PSYDEH, one of only 12 non-profits across the globe chosen by GlobalGiving for its 2020 Project of the Month Club. PSYDEH trains, organizes and supports marginalized people to create local solutions to their own problems. We…
Taylor Ourada | December 19, 2019 Bill Easterly kicked off Feedback+New York with a discussion around using consent as a measure for success beyond traditional monitoring. This intuitively makes a lot of sense – a person’s decision to continue attending a program or using a product is the ultimate indicator that it’s working for…
Lynn Jin | December 5, 2019 After interning at Feedback Labs for two months, thinking back about my previous interning experience at a large pharmaceutical company, the differences in management let me realize how important feedback in management is. When I was an HR intern at a large pharmaceutical company two years ago, my job…
Samuel Addai-Boateng | December 4, 2019 Ghanaians, like many other Africans, define equity as the level of fairness in the way people and groups are treated in relation to an issue. And like the rest of the world, while we understand the value of inclusivity and ensuring that the perspectives of all interest groups are…
‘The 100 Hotspots: a snapshot of socially excluded vulnerable population groups and SDGs in India’, is a first of its kind study on the less recognized population groups in India and their status in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
I work for Polaris, where one of our primary programs is operating the National Human Trafficking Hotline for human trafficking (among other work we do in the field such as policy advocacy).
Andrew MckinnonNovember 14, 2019 Building technical solutions to empower local governments to better engage with and understand the needs of their residents, I know how difficult it is to equitably collect feedback that leads to actionable insights. Feedback collection and analysis is the heart of our work at Acta Solutions. We work with local government…
There’s a very real movement happening right now around equity, diversity, and recognizing power dynamics that are hard-wired into philanthropy. These issues have existed for decades, but people are now getting more comfortable discussing things directly and that’s a good thing.